In Reply to: Re: Pro Sound Reinforcement Done Right posted by Bill Fitzmaurice on April 28, 2006 at 21:37:37:
...I listen to classical music, film scores, choral, jazz. My wife and I go to the symphony in my medium sized mid westerm USA town. We have a new performing arts center. We have taken in a number of the traveling shows and acts and it seems that the sound is the worse component of going. It also seems that each band or act has their own equipment and sound man who strives wholeheartedly to say "to hell" with the hall acoustics or so it's my observation. The hall sound system is always off. I also have never heard movie theatre sound so horrible. I think they are trying to do too much. They are trying to reproduce down to 20 hz which is a JOKE. Amps clip trying to do this. So we get distortion. Back when RCA and WESTREX had control over the theaters, we had better sound. The bass horns would seldom go below 40 hz, but they could be driven with one watt to ear splitting volumes. I remember seeing HOW THE WEST WAS WON at a WESTREX equipped Cinerama theatre in Atlanta. Best sound I have ever heard. And not loud, just very realistic, No wall shaking, No distortion. That which is new is not necessarily better! Ray Hughes
"I take you as you are
And make of you what I will,
Skunk-bear, carcajou, bloodthirsty
Non-survivor.
Lord, let me die but not die out." THE LAST WOLVERINE by James Dickey
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- STUPIDITY sums it up nicely, I think..... - grhughes 12:49:43 04/29/06 (0)